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Show ( DAVE DAVIE ) 1352 JOHNSON For Defendant ( Record , vol . 30 , pp . ( 5200-5275 5260-5275 ) ) He resides at ( Moab -Aloab Aloab ) , ( Utah 'Utah Utah ) , and is engaged in the ( hotel 'hotel hotel ) business . At one time he was in the employ of the Moab Garage Company , and worked on the large boat called The Barge belonging to that com - pany . He ( worked -worked worked ) for possibly a ( seven-month sevenmonth ) ( con- con ) secutive period , and he did not miss any shifts ( dur- dur ) ing that time . He first commenced to work on The Barge some time in December , 1925 , and continued ( until -until until ) somewhere around June , 1926 . This was his first experience on the Colorado River . During this period they hauled down the rig and material . to rebuild the one that burned down at Shafer No . ( 1 -1 ) , and the same for Shafer No . 2 and camp houses . ( R . 5261 . ) There had not been any well burned ( down -down down ) at No . 2 but they hauled similar equipment ; hauled to the ( Snowden-McSweeney SnowdenMcSweeney ) dock across the river from No . 1 . They would try to average about ( -eighteen eighteen ) or twenty tons to the load , but to the best of his recollection they have hauled as high as 22 tons . They have taken down full barge loads of . coal , eighteen or twenty tons at one time . ( R . 5261- 5262 . ) They made more than one trip with coal as freight . Virgil Baldwin had charge of the boat during the period he worked on it . Virgil Baldwin ordinarily piloted the boat going down , and he would pilot it coming up . The cargo was unloaded |